美語情景對話 第613期:The Good and Bad of Film 拍攝利弊

Todd: OK, now Jeff, you were saying that you made a movie. Could you talk about what was the best best thing, or the highlight of making a movie?

託德：傑夫，你說你剛剛拍了部電影。你能談談拍電影最棒的地方在哪裏嗎？

Jeff: Todd, documentary. We made a documentary, television documentary. The best thing about making the television documentary, it was independent, so we had total control. We shot what we wanted, when we liked and I think that was the best thing. We were our own bosses so I think when you're working for someone else you lose creativity so we could do anything we liked so that was the best thing.

傑夫：託德，我們拍的是紀錄片。我們拍了部電視紀錄片。製作電視紀錄片最棒的事情是獨立，我們有全部的控制權。我們在想拍的時候拍攝我們想拍的鏡頭，我認爲這是最棒的事情。我們是自己的老闆，我認爲爲別人工作的時候會喪失創新性，能做自己喜歡的事情是最棒的。

Todd: Sorry, documentary. So, then what was the worst thing. Like what are some troubles that you had that really drove you nuts?

託德：抱歉，你說過是紀錄片。那最糟糕的地方是什麼？比如你們遇到了哪些讓你們抓狂的麻煩？

Jeff: Well, because it was independent, we had nobody helping us, which meant all the technical, the artistic decisions were made by us and we had no idea what were doing, so when you have no idea what you are doing and you're working by yourself it can be very, very difficult, very frustrating, just the lack of knowledge, not knowing what you're doing so yeah, that was the hardest thing.

傑夫：因爲這份工作很獨立，所以沒有人幫我們，這意味着所有的技術決策和藝術決策都要由我們自己決定，而我們都不清楚我們在做什麼，當你不清楚自己在做什麼而且又沒有人幫你的時候，真的非常非常難，會讓人非常沮喪，缺乏知識，不清楚自己在做什麼是最難的事情。

Todd: So if you were to make a documentary again, now that you've made one, what do you know now that you would do differently?

託德：你已經完成了一部紀錄片，如果你再拍紀錄片，你會有不同的做法嗎？

Jeff: We'd hire some professional help because it's too difficult to do it on your own. We picked up a camera. We bought a camera and we started filming this and we had no idea of what we were doing so it was too difficult. Next time, which we think we will do another one we will hire some professional help, professional cameraman, and maybe someone that has graduated from art school.

傑夫：我們會聘請專業人士來幫助我們，因爲獨立製作紀錄片真的太難了。我們買了相機之後就開始拍攝這部紀錄片，可是其實我們都不清楚自己在做些什麼，所以過程真的很艱難。下次我們再拍紀錄片，我們會聘請專業人士幫助我們，我們會聘請職業攝影師還有從藝術院校畢業的專業人士。

Todd: So you say you would like to do another documentary. What would you like to do a documentary on?

託德：你剛說你想再拍一部紀錄片。這次你打算拍哪方面的紀錄片？

Jeff: Well, we have a couple of ideas. We have two main ideas now. One is to canoe from, canoe down the Dawson River which is in the artic in Northern Canada, which would be very interesting: rugged nature and animals and like the pioneers from years ago, and the other one is to drive a alternative fuel vehicle, from the top, to the tip of South America and that would be fueled by human pooh, so those are two next ideas. Both are difficult so those are the ideas we have.

傑夫：嗯，我們有一些想法。現在我們有兩個主題。其中一個主題是北加拿大北極地地區道森河流域的駱駝，這個主題非常有意思，荒涼的自然、多年前的動物和拓荒者；另一個主題是開着替代燃料車從南美洲北端前往南美洲南端，這會非常有趣，這些就是我們的想法。這是目前我們定的兩個主題，不過都非常有難度。

Todd: OK, Jeff, we'll be checking our TV guide waiting for those great documentaries. Thanks.

託德：好，傑夫，我們會查閱電視指南，期待你這些優秀的紀錄片。謝謝。

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重點講解：
1. drive sb. nuts 把某人逼瘋；
例句：It used to drive me nuts. But now I know what she means.
這常常讓我抓狂，但是現在我明白了她的意思。
2. on one's own 獨立地；依靠自己地；
例句：I've a lot of sympathy for her; she brought up the children on her own.
我非常同情她，她是獨立把孩子們撫養成人的。
3. pick up 買；購買；
例句：We managed to pick up a few bargains at the auction.
我們從拍賣場買到了幾件便宜貨。
4. would like to do sth. 表示願意）想要；
例句：I would like to reserve a room with a view.
我想定一個能觀景的房間。
5. a couple of 兩個；幾個；
例句：He lives a couple of miles from the coast.
他住在離海岸幾英里的地方。